Why didn't they just chill after they got Manchuria?
Why didn't they just chill after they got Manchuria?
Caleb Nguyen
Justin Ortiz
And have to watch while the chinks had all the fun killing eachother?
Andrew Hughes
They wanted natural resources: rubber, tin, crude oil, other ores, etc.
Brandon Stewart
They couldn't handle the Aussie banter in Versailles.
Kayden Gray
superiority complex
Dylan Sanchez
They got fucked very badly during the Great Depression. No one buy their stuff and all trade collapsed and the merchant who was barely represented in the government were completely replaced by military. So they decided to be self-dependent and invade China for dem market, resources and slaves.
Jose Peterson
Rabid militarism and race based nationalism, and related expansionism. Also they massively underestimated the difficulty of subduing a nation the size of China, even with the civil war, and partially because the war had helped caused modernization and expansion of the Chinese military. And then afterwards they easily swept Indochina and the South Pacific, especially Oceania. In honesty, Pearl harbor and the simultaneous attacks on other American Pacific territories was probably their best bet in trying to defeat the Americans before the war started. They knew that war was inevitable with America, and that a properly prepared United States would crush them. They hoped they could cause the Americans to concede immediately, and if not believed that with the time they bought themselves that they could subdue China, and thus bring the vast majority of their army, a significant portion of their airforce, and some of their navy to bear. This was obviously incorrect.
Carson Sanders
Easton Allen
He did nothing wrong
Jonathan Collins
Kwantung Army was a Splinter faction that cared only for one thing: war.
Jayden Kelly
Autarky
Extremely autonomous IJA that wanted to justify its existence
Brandon Thompson
>literally only demand is to be treated as equals
>aussies banter you into storming out in an autistic rage
based
Jayden Ortiz
Greed
Luke Flores
China was fighting them.
Russia was fighting them.
SEA is controlled by Europeans. Blockades were happening.
Aiden Lewis
What happened?
Jonathan Sullivan
Japanese expansion had been planned as early as 1922
Joshua Gutierrez
None of the warlords in China recognized Manchuguo. Sitting back and letting China unite then zerg rush them was a bad idea.
Many in the army thought China's disorder was the perfect time to attack.
They also didn't discover oil there until after the war. Had they found it in the 30s. Japan probably wouldn't have invaded all of China, instead just playing factions off each other. Or giving support in recognition for Manchuguo.
Elijah Cruz
Everything ITT is wrong. Japanese have a very prominent inferiority complex towards China because they feel like its weird little clone. There was absoluetely 0 reason to invade China. It had no ressources Japan needed, and it was a weak, medieval nation that was 0 danger to the industrial powerhouse that was Japan. Their only real motive to invade China was to kill and rape as many Chinese as the can.
Gabriel Long
>They also didn't discover oil there until after the war. Had they found it in the 30s. Japan probably wouldn't have invaded all of China, instead just playing factions off each other. Or giving support in recognition for Manchuguo.
Japan was 4 years into the China war before their oil got cut off so I doubt not having oil was a factor in their going to war.
Mason Diaz
It's a pity Germany and Japan didn't coordinate their expansion plans a bit better. Japan could have flanked the soviet union from the east, and germany from the west. After dividing soviet union between them, Japan could have concentrat on China, and Germany on Britain. After that, the US. Damn, the world would be glorious.
Leo Anderson
Germany was too busy coordinating with the Soviets on how to carve up Europe.
Luke Ward
June 4th Tiannamen Square Massacre
六四屠杀
Josiah Reed
Japan didn't do so hot against the Soviets in '39 and then didn't do anything to the Soviets, partially because even after the war against Germany started, the Soviets kept over 120,000 men, including air, in heavily fortified positions to prevent them from doing so.